Best Fisheye for weddings?

Hi there, we have a Canon 7d, 70d, and rebel t3i. I love the look of some dramatic fisheye photos I've seen at weddings and I was wondering which fisheye would be the best? I've tried a rokinon 8mm but didn't find it to be dramatic enough. Looking preferably for a sigma, any suggestions? Thank you!!!

spillcanvas24 wrote in post #17973993
Hi there, we have a Canon 7d, 70d, and rebel t3i. I love the look of some dramatic fisheye photos I've seen at weddings and I was wondering which fisheye would be the best? I've tried a rokinon 8mm but didn't find it to be dramatic enough. Looking preferably for a sigma, any suggestions? Thank you!!!

Welcome to POTN.

If you're looking for a really pronounced fisheye look, the limitation is your bodies. Picking up a full frame body would make a significant difference.

Yup. You need a FF camera but honestly your going to get the same look from the 8mm on crop as you do with 15mm on FF.

You want interesting... get the 8-15L

I just learned from a friend that there is a wider fisheye designed for crop sensors: the Sigma 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC HSM. If 8mm on a crop body isn't doing it for you, I think the Sigma 4.5mm is really the only other option without moving to full frame.

The "for weddings" is the part that is throwing me for a loop. What part of the wedding do you want to photograph with a fisheye? Ive had one for a wedding once and used it for a shot from the balcony of a church during the service and was going to use it for dancing but forgot haha

Actually it reminds me of this guy who shoots weddings with two fisheyes

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=e-WxCoDewbY

Skip to 8:50 for some x2 fisheye wedding action!

Agreed. It's a highly specialized lens. No one wants an entire wedding full of fisheye shots. I would rent it.

Don't have samples to hand, nor wedding experience...

I have both the Rokinon and Sigma 8mm, shooting canon crop sensors. These are two very different lenses.

Not only is there a massive difference in the coatings and quality of the images, which is important with ultrawide to fisheye, because there *will* be light sources in your shots, but the geometry of the image is waaay different. The Rokinon is more of an ultrawide look, with more of the wide-angle distortion that is visible in in the 11 to 16 mm range on crop. In other words, it attempts to correct towards rectilinear. And fails to get to it, of course.

The Sigma is more of a classic fisheye with a round image on a full frame camera, but on crop is cropped in to have the edges of the circle nearly touch the edges of the the frame left and right, which means that the top and bottom of the circle is cut off at the edge of the frame. And of course the image quality is noticeably better, without the severe flares of the Rokinon.

I like both these lenses for different reasons, but if I had to have just one, it would be the Sigma!

I'm still a relative newbie here, guess it's time to learn about embedding images or links in posts... Seems to me I should have some Sigma images accessible...

Edit: Ah, here we go. Examples of the Sigma 8mm on a Canon 60D. No post cropping.

Here's an example with people. Note just how close the camera is to the subjects - I have short arms!

Here's a landscape. To keep a horizontal line relatively unbowed, it needs to be near the center of the image.

PS. The Rokinon is manual iris on the lens, and manual focus. The Sigma has body control of iris, and MF/AF.

DThriller wrote in post #17978678
Actually it reminds me of this guy who shoots weddings with two fisheyes

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=e-WxCoDewbY

Skip to 8:50 for some x2 fisheye wedding action!

Gene Ho is the nicest guy !!!! I met him at WPPI and he also gave me a tour of his studio. I usually do one fisheye at the end of each wedding.